An alarming new study has found that 4 billion – over half the world’s population – don’t have enough water for at least one month of the year, while half a billion experience water scarcity throughout the entire year. [WaPo]

Here’s the story of one community in California, where wells went dry a year ago due to a prolonged drought, and government agencies have been slow to respond. [WaPo]
“It was like the end of the world,” said Yolanda Serrato of East Porterville, Calif.

Collapse of the EmpireBungling the New World Order [Consortium News]
By relying on NATO interventions and other military strategies, the United States is bleeding itself economically and crippling its ability to cooperate with Russia, China and other emerging forces in the multi-polar world, writes ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller.

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SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. judge closely questioned the government on Monday as he weighed whether to temporarily halt an order from President Donald Trump that bars asylum for migrants who illegally cross the border with Mexico.

CNN on Monday called on a federal court to hold emergency proceedings after the White House said it would again revoke press access to correspondent Jim Acosta despite a temporary restraining order on Friday to reinstate him.

U.S. intelligence officials should issue a public report on the killing of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a senior Democratic U.S. Senator said on Monday, following published reports the CIA believed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had personally ordered the murder.

Three Democratic senators launched a new legal challenge on Monday to President Donald Trump's naming of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general, accusing Trump of depriving the U.S. Senate of its constitutional power to act on such appointments.

President Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Sunday he would not intervene if Matthew Whitaker, his acting U.S. attorney general, moved to curtail Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he does not want to listen to an audio recording of the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi despite facing mounting pressure to punish Saudi Arabia for the killing.